INVESTBANK, the leading bank in providing innovative banking solutions, in cooperation with Ayman Idais Basketball Academy and Zikra initiative have arranges a fun-packed day of basketball training with children from Ghour AL Marzaa at their local school.

The visit aimed at providing children in Ghour Al Mazraa a basketball-training day that would help enhance their mental and physical health.

INVESTBANK CEO, Muntaser Dawwas, said: “Sports is an important factor that improves a child’s development and cognitive skills. That’s why in keeping with INVESTBANK’s CSR objectives, we decided to cooperate with Ayman Idais Basketball Academy to provide children in the underprivileged Ghour al Mazraa area with the opportunity to practice a fun sport.”

For his part, Captain Ayman Idais considered the fun sports day for the children of Ghur El Mazraa as an opportunity to enable the Academy to discover talented and skilled children to develop their potential to become heroes in the future. "

The sports day, which also included competitions between the children, was concluded with a distribution of gifts.

Out of their belief in the importance of instilling the love of sports in children, particularly in underprivileged areas, INVESTBANK announced its support for the Ayman Idais Academy for basketball in 2016. Under the initiative, Idais—the winner of 17-national league title—pledged to frequently visit the Ghor al Mazraa underprivileged area to teach children there basketball skills and principles.

Idais, who represented Jordan at the 2010 World Cup, established his basketball academy in 2012 to help spread the love of basketball among young Jordanians and find the talents that would develop the game in the Kingdom.